Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Gaming for kiddies, good or bad?




This young fellow is getting rather miffed during his game play session. I don't in any way think that it's video games making him so. It seems to be in his particular nature to treat this kind of situation in this way.

He has three options...
1. Stop playing.
2. Go away, practice his brains out, and bring some training back to the game.
3. Have a heart attack in his mid-twenties.

If your kid is doing this, why the hell aren't you doing something about it? He obviously has a lot more issues than ANY video game could bring into his life. I just hope one day, far into the future he actually wins one single round.

By the way, there is an occasional naughty word in this video.



This is an image of a blood clot, in his brain, exploding when he's 19

10 comments:

rinaz said...

the kid needs a chill pill :|

draele said...

This is all too common these days, with kids and with young adults as well. A shame.

Anonymous said...

Not just kids but everyone takes things too seriously. Life is a place to have fun. We need to teach our kids this and let them make mistakes every once in a while. We arn't all perfect, are we? America has told their children that they need to be perfect because the adults think that they need to be perfect. I say lighten up! Make a mistake! Have fun!

draele said...

I agree on what you said, but I don't feel that is the problem with this type of situation. It's not about perfection, it's about finding venues for all pent-up frustrations in a constructive way when you're not allowed to find that constructive way. Society pits it to wear parents have to work, there are many single parents struggling, and kids and activities tend to get pushed on the wayside, not by choice either. It's a matter of survival, we lose fun in order to make the means for mere survival. So, we find mindless venues to take out what we can't take out in society. And it usually ends up being mindless things such as video games, etc. And it turns out with the type of things seen in that video. Oh, if only we could just forget it all and make life just fun. I'd buy into that.

Anonymous said...

So, your saying that the child has pent up anger that he does not know how to express or has not been allowed to express in a constructive way? I agree with that. I also understand about being a single parent and surviving. I still say his parent is over controlling. A perfectionist. I've seen it before. It's not just about fun it's about letting people be people. People get angry, why can't we talk about it? There is such a broad range of emotions but we take it all too seriously and hold it inside. Then it comes out like it did with that boy. I agree about your "midless venues" point of view. I think we become so unhappy and overwhealmed with reality that we hide in video games, virtual reality world (ha,ha, that's me),et...Thanks for commenting. I like this whole blog thing. I'm new to it. It's nice hearing all the different points of view and hearing what others have to say.

Krysss said...

This kid is headed for embolysm city, on the express train.

Anonymous, do you have a blog too?

draele said...

anonymous, I don't agree that his parents are controlling and him not being allowed to be who he is. Yes, you've seen it that way, and I've seen it as not being that way. So...it comes from all walks of life.

Too many kids are headed for embolysms or early heart attacks, being abusive as an adult, and perhaps prison.

Anonymous said...

Ok. But why is he like that? There has to be more of an explanation than he's a jerk. How can we stop it? I sure in hell don't want a bunch of kids like that around when I'm too old to take care of myself. And I see it all the time. Kids are disrespectful, angry, and violent. Why?

Krysss said...

As far as I am aware, isn't it that children have to be shown HOW to interact with others? Most people given the chance will merely take advantage of a situation and take what they want from it, if there are no consequences. A child who acts in this way may have been shown it's either ok to do so, or know that there are simply no consequences to such actions.

I suppose most people get into the habit of acting in a reasonably positive way.

Krysss said...

Shiloh, BLOG is short for WEB LOG. Some sort of online journal, news, or diary type thing. I read your blog, and I have to agree with you 100%